Microsoft, I Forgive You

Re:Microsoft, I Forgive You by chadgeidel on Thursday October 27, 2016 @01:23PM (#12807128)

There are ads for Microsoft products in the app store and ads for Office on the start menu in "stock" Windows (installed from MSDN ISO - not from a hardware vendor). The lock screen has an (optional?) theme which displays high-res photos from Microsoft. Some of those photos have been game ads.

I personally think it's unobtrusive, but the ads are there.

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Re:Microsoft, I Forgive You by flukus on Thursday October 27, 2016 @07:08PM (#12811245)

The lock screen is especially annoying. They can show ads fine but it takes several seconds to start accepting input from my keyboard.

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Re:Microsoft, I Forgive You by dingo_bat on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:28PM (#12812213)

I don't see the logic of a lock screen. Why doesn't it directly enter my password? Why must I swipe away the wallpaper to access the password box? I mean it's not like my phone that I wake up the laptop just to look at the lock screen notifications. If I wake up my laptop, I'm gonna unlock it! Really dumb ui.

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Re:Microsoft, I Forgive You by flukus on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:34PM (#12812813)

Probably because it is the phone UI.

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Re:Microsoft, I Forgive You by chadgeidel on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:13AM (#12816693)

I agree. Additionally (at least in my experience) - the steps to go through to show the password box are maddeningly different. Sometimes moving the mouse works, sometimes typing on the keyboard works, sometimes neither work and I have to use ctrl-alt-delete.

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